Fred Allen

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

And of all the things I look forward to in life, falling in love with you is at the top of the list.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

Grief never mended no broken bones.

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.